Filmmaker Mike Flanagan dips his toe into the waters of YA horror for the first time with his new Netflix series “The Midnight Club” (which is currently streaming), but his next Netflix project is another first for him. is – completely in the opposite direction.
The “Hunting of Hill House” and “Doctor Sleep” filmmaker wrapped production on a limited series adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” this summer and when TheWrap shared “Midnight Club” with Flanagan When talked about, he couldn’t contain his excitement for fans to see “Usher”.
“It’s madness. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever done, but in the other direction,” he said. “My favorite way to describe it to people is that ‘Hill House’ is a string quartet, and ‘ ‘Bleu Manor’ is this delicate, beautiful piece of classical piano music, and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’. Heavy metal. It’s rock ‘n’ roll.”
Not only that, but Flanagan named Giallo’s Italian horror subgenre and promised there would be blood. Lots and lots of blood.
“It’s closest to Giallo,” he said. “It’s wild. It’s colorful and dark and bloodthirsty and wicked and funny, and aggressive and scary and hilarious. I’ve never gotten to work on anything like that. We did everything on the field with it.” Quit, and it’s just bombastic fun. I’m really excited to find a way out because I especially find that both ‘The Midnight Club’ and ‘Usher go in their own separate directions. , and next to each other they are attractive to me. ”
The show is based on the short story of the same name, but also folds into Poe’s other works, such as Flanagan’s work with Henry James in “Bleu Manor” and Christopher Pike in “The Midnight Club”.
Bruce Greenwood stars as Roderick Usher (replacing Frank Langella), and is supported by a stellar ensemble of newcomers and Flanagan regulars including Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Mark Hamill, Carl Lumbly, Samantha Sloane, Contains Rahul Kohli, Henry Thomas, T’. Nia Miller, Zach Guilford and Kate Siegel.
Flanagan directed four episodes of “Usher” and the other four episodes are directed by Michael Fimagnari, who served as Flanagan’s cinematographer for most of his career and most recently the “To All the Boys” sequels and “The Midnight”. Club” in two episodes. ,
Netflix has yet to set a release date for “The Fall of the House of Usher,” but given the trajectory of Flanagan’s other Netflix series, we can reasonably expect it in the late summer or fall of 2023. can.
